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Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches

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On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 04:29:39PM +0100, solitone wrote:
> I take advantage of this thread to ask for advice on this topic. My need is a 
> managed switch with Gigabit ports that supports port trunking (Link 
> Aggregation Control Protocol, LACP, 802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation), to 
> increase the bandwith to my Network Access Storage. Is there anything on the 
> marketplace that doesn't cost way too much?

Depending on your usage scenario, maybe you don't need one at
all.

If you have a single Linux box that wants lots of bandwidth to
the NAS, you could do this:

   switch -------- NAS
        |          |||
        ----------Linux box

This shows a NAS and a Linux box with four NICs each. One is
used to connect to the general network via the switch, and
the other three on each device are connected straight across
to the companion.

You would want to set extra IP addresses on each device so that
they can see each other directly through the triple NICs, which
can speak LACP without going through a switch.

If, on the other hand, you have a bunch of potential bandwidth
consumers, yes, you'll need a capable switch.

EBay says that you can get a used Juniper EX2200-24 (24 gigabit
ports) for $110 or so -- that's a great piece of hardware, very
capable,

For about the same price, you can get a used Juniper SRX110h or
SRX220h, which are 8 port firewall/routers: but they can also do
LACP on any set of ports. If you have a small network, that
could be really nice.

-dsr-

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Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-02 17:30 +0100
  Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-02-02 18:00 +0100
  Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2017-02-03 21:30 +0100
    Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-04 11:00 +0100
      Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-04 11:50 +0100
        Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-05 11:10 +0100
          Update: My current intentRe: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-05 18:00 +0100
            Re: Update: My current intentRe: Advice / recommendations on  Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-05 19:10 +0100
              Re: Update: My current intentRe: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-06 21:00 +0100
            Re: Update: My current intentRe: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-06 16:00 +0100
            Re: Update: My current intentRe: Advice / recommendations on  Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-02-06 17:00 +0100
              Re: Update: My current intentRe: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-06 20:20 +0100
    Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-05 19:40 +0100
  Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-02-04 15:50 +0100
    Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-04 17:40 +0100
  Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-02-04 16:40 +0100
    Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-02-04 17:10 +0100
      Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-02-04 17:50 +0100

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